The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14
Weekly News Summary.



for a writing-book cover and Levi X. Fuller
of Brattleboro for dust guard.
PoTAroEs in the vicinity of Brattleboro
have advanced from eighty-five cents to one
dollar per bushel in consequence of the poor
yield.
IT is proposed to move the Rutland Shirt
Company to st. Johnsbury provided S3O,-
600 or $4,000 of the stock can be subscribed
there.
WILLIAM NJ NARRAMoRE of Bakersfield
has been appointed aid-de-camp on the staff
of Commander-in-chief Fairchild of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
THE August term at the Grand Isle county
court was in session the best part OF day.
Years ago, when lawsuits were in fashion,
court was often held two and three weeks
BESIDES the Gift of $500 by Hon. Freder-
ick Billings and 500 by Major A. b. Valen-
tine toward the Gettysburg monuments,
Acknowledgements Fuller has given 800
and Hon. Carroll s. Page 500.
THE entries at the state fair at Howard
Park, Burlington, have been closed, with
300 in the horse department, 175 in the sheep
department and j2j in the cattle depart
ment, which are larger numbers of live stock
entries than ever before.
THE annual reunion of the Orleans
County Veterans Association is being held
at Barton. 1t opened yesterday and closes
to-day. Congressman William w. Grout
speakers are Governor Ormsbee Lieutenant
governor Fuller, General stephen Thomas,
Colonel 7. o. Seaver and Colonel H. Nj.
Mansur.
SUMMER travel has been heavier this sea-
son on Vermont railroads than it was last
year, and most of the hotels among the
mountains and on Lake Champldln have
had prosperous season. A large number
of city guests still remain at Newport,
Middletown Springs, Sudbury, Manchester,
Highgate Springs, Alburgh Springs, Shell
don Springs and elsewhere in the state.
DURING a thunderstorm in New Haven
last week Wednesday telegraph-pole near
E. A. Doud's residence was completely
shattered by lightning and two. or three
others slivered farther SOUTH while north,
near Sylvester Douds, two other poles
were well slivered. Whether the electric
fluid struck the wires and was in that way
distributed, or whether there were different
currents, the electricians cannot decide.
QUITE a number of Vermont veterans pro-
pose to 90 on the third biennial excursion of
Sheridans Veterans Association to the
great battle-felds of Virginia. The trip laid
out will he a delightful one and will occupy
from October 10 to 10. The party will be
limited to one hundred persons. Vermont
veterans intending to go should notify Cen
era Stephen Thomas, Montpelier, General
w. H. Gilmore, Fairlee, or Hon. Levi X.
Fuller, Brattleboro.
PROFESSOR O. F. DAVIS of the Chester
high school has resigned his position and
takes the place recently vacated by Profess
sor Ryder of Bellows Falls as principal of
the high school there. Edward A. Burnett
of Guilford, who graduated from Dartmouth
last spring has accepted the principalship
thus vacated. Miss Julia b. Jackman, a
former preceptress of Windsor high school,
has gone to Francestown, n. H.. as precep-
tress in the academy.
THE new town hall at Bellows Falls was
formally dedicated with a mass-meeting
September urging the formation of a pub
lie library association. About eight hun
dred representative citizens were present
Committees on finance and on permanent
organization We're appointed addresses
We're made by several prominent gentlemen
and a liberal fund was subscribed. The
town hall, which has just been completed
at cost of $4,000, is one of the finest pub
lie buildings in New England.
THE third annual meeting of the Vermont
Horse-breeders' Association was opened
auspciously at Rutland September Z
There were nearly four hundred entries OF
horses, among them being the noted stall
lions, " Ben Franklin " and addison Lam
bert" with large following of their off
following; Waldo" with twenty-five Of
his stock; "Victor Wilkes" three-year-
old stallion, bred in Kentucky, who has a
record of 2:17; the six-year-old stallion
"Colonel Egbert," bred in Kentucky, now
owned in Clarendon st. Julian, with
quite number of his descendants, and many
Others
OK the line of the Bennington g. Rutland
railroad near the village of White Creek
is a house which stands in two states, New
York and Vermont; three counties, Rens
selaer and Washington, n Y, and Ben
nington, VT. and four towns, Hoosick ant
White Creek in this state and Bennington
and SALISBURY in Vermont. This curiously
located house was built eighty years ago 10y
Colonel Mather and was intended as plac,
of refuge for debtors. If an officer from
Hoosick, Rensselaer, county, should go afte
an impecunious debtor who was fortunat,
enough to get under the hospitable roof ofth,
Mather house, the prosecuted man had onl,
to step across the hall into SALISBURY, Ben
nington county, and he could laugh at hi
pursuer with impunity.-Tro Times.
In General.
CHOLERA is rapidly spreading in Chilli.
The peach crop in Michigan is the larges
ever gathered.
SEVERAL persons were killed in a riot a
Mitchelltown, Ireland.
FIRE Sunday destroyed $4,000 worth @
property in Minneapolis.
THE British government is strengthenin,
the defences of Halifax harbor.
REV. ALvA WOODS, DID,, died in Prov
dence. His age was ninety-four
THE best estimates are that corn will b
about sixty per cent of full crop.
A BIG gun in process of casting at Shelf ED
England, burst, killing eight men.
FIFTEEN baseball clubs in New Englan,
have disbanded within short time.
THE Queens jubilee gift of 10000 wi
be devoted to the training of nurses.
ROBERT BARTON, manufacturing jewele
OF Providence, has failed for 100000
HENRY GEORGE predicts vote of 1876 ,0C
for the labor ticket in New York state.
THE Cape cranberry crop will be nearl
as large as the phenomenal one last year
The fire losses in the United States an
Canada since January exceed $S5, 100000
A TORNADO near Toledo, Ohio, seriousl
damaged the Northwestern insane asylum
THE Charles Stewart Paper Company
Cincinnati has suspended. Liabilities 500
600.
SUIT has been brought against Bosto
manufacturing firm for importing foreig
labor.
A FRENCH smack reports the loss of
vessel with fifty hands in the Englis
channel.
THE Austrian consul at Bombay repor
81 1923 deaths from cholera in Dude duril
last May.
HEAVY rain and hail-storms have do
much damage in Scotland and the north
England.